Will the former CIA director be hoist by his own petard?

American Spectator ^ | February 17, 2017 | By George Neumayr

[Brad from Tennessee]

You're right. The Nixon campaign risked using extralegal tactics against Democrats in 1972 because the 1960 Kennedy campaign employed mass voter fraud to win. A lot of the dirty tricks and the Watergate break-in itself happened without Nixon's personal knowledge. There are people to this day who believe the Watergate scandal was perpetrated by the CIA as a coup against the Nixon Administration.

[Fedora]

You’re talking about the Cambodian bombing story leak to the NYT’s William Beecher that the FBI traced to Morton Halperin as a leading suspect. Yes, that was part of it. Intelligence community infighting over the Huston Plan and the Pentagon Papers leak investigation were also part of the backstory to the formation of the Plumbers.

[dsc]

“There are people to this day who believe the Watergate scandal was perpetrated by the CIA as a coup against the Nixon Administration.”

A coup by the gang that couldn’t shoot straight? The doofuses that couldn’t even take Castro out?

Looks to me more like incompetence on the part of Nixon’s subordinates.

[independentmind]

I would really like to see that.

I have developed a strong distaste for Brennan.